Esoteric Astrology as news for week December 27-January 2, 2012 Friday, sometime after midnight, is the last full moon of 2012. It’s the Capricorn solar festival. This full moon of Initiation concludes both the Festival week of the New Group of World Servers (NGWS) and the long awaited year of 2012. A full moon occurring…

FACT: Nearly 1/3 of American women report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. — Junior League of Northwest Arkansas website Readers and Editor: SpareTime (An upstart project of the group that brought you Seeds That Feed) is partnering with the Junior League of NWA to…

By Rachel Birdsell Another year is about to slip away again, and hopefully we are all ending 2012 a little wiser than when we started it. I know that I’ve learned a lot this year. Some of it is knowledge that I embrace and some is knowledge that I wish I didn’t know. But, whether…

By Amy Alkon My girlfriend of a year is enormously wealthy and very generous. Despite my protestations, she loves buying me nice clothes and other gifts, and appears to expect little or nothing in return except my love. I have a professional job but much more modest means. There’s no way I can return her…

By Amanda Bancroft There’s a debate about which type of tree — artificial or real — has the least amount of environmental impact. Wikipedia states a real tree generates 3.1 kg of greenhouse gases every year, while an artificial tree produces 48.3 kg over its lifetime, but these numbers are affected by how long you…

CORRECTION: Last week, TFW reported that Anonymous Coffee Roasters supplies coffee to Arsaga’s. In fact, Arsaga’s has been roasting their own coffee for almost eight years and does not receive it from Anonymous Coffee.

University Of Arkansas Professor Designs Autopilot System To Keep It In The Air At Night By Mason Carr Robert Saunders, University Of Arkansas electrical engineering instructor, will design an autopilot system for the first solar-powered airplane scheduled to fly around the world in 20 days and 20 nights, making it the first solar-powered plane to…

By Terrah Baker I hear a lot about jobs in our economy. “There are no jobs. There are new jobs. These jobs are good. These jobs suck. We need more jobs!” Most recently, I attended an informative session held by the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas on the possibilities for green, renewable…

By Rachel Birdsell I have seen the phrase “reason for the season” about 9,526 times this month. We are all being implored to please, for the love of all things holy, remember the reason for the season. But I’m not sure which one I’m supposed to remember. There are a number of reasons people celebrate…